Moodles - can a robot read your mood..?

This
is the homepage of Moodles, a humanoid LEGO robot capable of displaying
several different emotional expressions.
Take the emotion sensor in your hand, and Moodles will mimic your true mood!- Or it might tell you what kind of bureaucrat you are!

Click here to watch a scene from the
movie (courtesy Raspberry Magic LCC). This is
a photo from behind the camera taken during the same scene as I'm
hiding behind a table on the floor while controlling the robot:

Also in 2012, Moodles was featured in a robot exhibition at Industrimuseet

In 2012, Moodles acted as a gimmick at the Innova 2012 conference in Copenhagen.
In this new version, it measures what kind of bureaucrat you are. See more here.

See
a bunch of images and video clips here - now
with clips and stills from Raspberry Magic! Or have
a look at the scrapbook of press coverage of
Moodles. Here is a small gallery of images from the building
process.

Moodles (pronounced so that it rhymes with "oodles") was built
specifically for the movie Raspberry Magic. Or, rather, its head
was. Its body has had several different heads. In its first version,
the robot (then called Elektra) appeared at the Robot Soccer World Cup
held in Paris, France in 1998 in connection with the real, human World
Cup. In 1999-2000, with a new and more sophisticated head, it was used in a computer science/psychology research project under the name of Feelix which resulted in several scientific papers.